EssexWorks Pledges 2009/10

ESSEXWORKS: 2009/10 pledges :

DELIVERY PROGRAMME:

OUR PEOPLE

DELIVERY PROGRAMME:

OUR ECONOMY

DELIVERY PROGRAMME:

OUR WORLD

Priority: Increasing Educational Achievement and Skills

Pledge: We will improve the quality of our school buildings by investing an additional £10m in maintenance and refurbishments.

Budget: £10 million

Priority: Improving Transport

Pledge: We will upgrade and refurbish local communities' roads and footpaths with £10m of additional investment.

Budget: £10 million

Priority: Reducing and Recycling Waste

Pledge: We will increase recycling of waste to over 45% in 2010 and to over 50% within the next 3 years, in partnership with the District and Borough Councils.

Budget £1.5 million

Priority: Supporting Vulnerable People

Pledge: We will offer Telecare equipment and support to all Essex residents over the age of 85 and other vulnerable groups enabling them to live safely and independently in their own home.

Budget: £4 million

Priority: Promoting Sustainable Economic Growth

Pledge: We will support Essex businesses through the downturn by thinking local, buying local.

Budget: £1 million

Priority: Protecting the Environment

Pledge: We will improve the appearance of Essex’s coastal paths, gateways and verges.

Budget: £500,000

Priority: Promoting Health and Leisure

Pledge: We will make available a £1m 'life raft trust' to keep open a range of Essex attractions during the economic downturn.

Budget: £1 million

Priority: Delivering Value for Money

Pledge: We will further reduce bureaucracy, freeing up £35m for investment in front-line services.

Priority: Making Communities Safer

Pledge: We will deliver, with Essex Police and partners, ten local operations to reduce crime and antisocial behaviour in identified areas.

Budget: £300,000

£80 million of new investment including:

£23 million investment in supporting Schools, Children and Families – includes additional capacity to keep children safe and prevent family breakdown, prevention and early intervention and support for raising school standards and promoting diversity.

£11 million to meet demands relating to the costs of demographic changes arising from a growing elderly population and increases in the numbers and complexity of care for adults with learning disabilities.

£10 million to cover the cost of waste disposal and recycling – includes a £5 million increase in the contribution to our Waste Reserve (to set aside money now to meet future costs of meeting European targets to reduce the amount of waste disposed of in landfill sites), £3 million in landfill tax and £ million for recycling.

£7 million to mitigate the impact of foregone interest on our working capital as a result of reductions in interest rates.

£6 million to reflect the costs of more children in the care of the council.

£3 million investment in highway maintenance

£2 million to support the implementation of Building Schools for the Future programme to transform secondary schools.

£1 million for Youth Offending Teams.

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